Meet the editors

Alfredo Vaccaro received his MSc degree cum laude and commendation in Electronic Engineering from the University of Salerno and his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. From March 2002 to October 2014 he has been Assistant Professor of Electric Power Systems at the Department of Engineering, Faculty of Engineering of the University of Sannio. From February 2011 to December

2013 he was the Scientific Director of the Bureau of the Research Centre on Pure and Applied Mathematics at the Department of Engineering, University of Sannio. On October 2014 he obtained the National Scientific Qualification of Full Professor in Electrical Energy Engineering. Since November 2014 he has been Associate Professor of Electric Power Systems at the Department of Engineering of University of Sannio. He is the Editor in Chief of *Technology and Economics of Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy*, Springer Nature, Chair of the PES-IEEE Task Force on Enabling Paradigms for High-Performance Computing in Wide Area Monitoring Protective and Control Systems, and Chair of the IEEE PES Awards and Recognition Committee.

Ahmed Faheem Zobaa received his BSc (Hons), MSc, and PhD degrees in Electrical Power and Machines from Cairo University, Egypt, in 1992, 1997, and 2002, respectively. Also, he received his Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice from the University of Exeter, UK, in 2010, and his Doctorate of Science from Brunel University London, UK, in 2017. He was an instructor from 1992 to 1997, a teaching assistant from 1997 to 2002, and

an assistant professor from 2002 to 2007 at Cairo University, Egypt. From 2007 to 2010, he was a senior lecturer in renewable energy at the University of Exeter, UK. Currently, he is a reader in electrical and power engineering, an MSc course director, and a full member of the Institute of Energy Futures at Brunel University London, UK. His main areas of expertise include power quality, (marine) renewable energy, smart grids, energy efficiency, and lighting applications. Dr. Zobaa is an executive editor for the *International Journal of Renewable Energy Technology*. He is also an executive editor-in-chief for *Technology and Economics of Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy*, and an editor-in-chief for the *International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education*. He is also an editorial board member, editor, associate editor, and editorial advisory board member for many international journals. He is a registered chartered engineer, chartered energy engineer, European engineer, and international professional engineer. He is also a registered member of the Engineering Council UK, Egypt Syndicate of Engineers, and the Egyptian Society of Engineers. He is a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy of the UK and a fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the Energy Institute of the UK, the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Royal Society of Arts, the African Academy of Science, and the Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors. He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is also a member of the International Solar Energy Society, the European Power Electronics and Drives Association, and the IEEE Standards Association.

Prabhakar Karthikeyan Shanmugam completed his BE (EEE) from the University of Madras, Tamil Nadu (1997), his ME (Electrical Power Engineering) from the M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat (1999), and his PhD from VIT University, Tamil Nadu, India (2013) under the guidance of Prof. D. P. Kothari. He also completed his Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Central Power Research Institute, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. He is

Contents

Preface III

Chapter 1 1

Chapter 2 11

Chapter 3 29

Chapter 4 53

Chapter 5 75

Chapter 6 103

Chapter 7 119

Introductory Chapter: Open Problems and Enabling

by Alfredo Vaccaro, Antonio Pepiciello and Ahmed Faheem Zobaa

Connected Autonomous Electric Vehicles as Enablers for

A Distributed Optimization Method for Optimal Energy

by Dinh Hoa Nguyen, Huynh Ngoc Tran, Tatsuo Narikiyo

A Reliable Communication Model Based on IEEE802.15.4 for

Solid-State Transformer for Energy Efficiency Enhancement by Fernando Vaca-Urbano, Manuel S. Alvarez-Alvarado,

by Jafar Rasouli, Ahmad Motamedi, Mohamad Baseri

Methodologies for Smart Grids

by Binod Vaidya and Hussein T. Mouftah

Low-Carbon Future

Management in Smart Grid

Voltage Regulation in Smart Grids

and Michihiro Kawanishi

WSANs in Smart Grids

by Nithiyananthan Kannan

Angel A. Recalde and Félix Moncayo-Rea

and Mahshad Parsa

Microgrid

by Maher Azzouz

presently with VIT University as an associate professor. He is a Senior Member-IEEE with 31 published articles in peer-reviewed journals and 77 works in national and international conferences. His area of interest includes deregulation and restructured power systems under smart grid environments, electric vehicles, and issues related to distribution system studies.

Dr. Kannaiah Sathish Kumar, PhD from VIT University, Vellore, India, has 14 years of total teaching experience and 9 years of research experience working in various research teams to develop new applications of evolutionary computing algorithms for solving various power system problems such as unit commitment, economic dispatch, emission reduction, smart grids, power system reconfiguration, and restoration. His current area

of interest is studying interconnection problems in linkages of HVDC and HVAC (765 kV) transmission lines with existing 230 kV high-voltage lines, nano-additives for high-voltage XLPE cables, and optimization of smart grids. He is a member of IEEE, IEEE-PES, and SSI. He has published 51 research papers in different journals and conferences of international repute and authored a book on power quality. At present he is working for the School of Electrical Engineering as an associate professor. He is a reviewer for various SCI journals such as *Electrical Power and Energy Systems*, *ISA Transactions*, *AAI*, etc.
